Did you know there are some financial metrics that can provide clues of a potential multi-bagger? Ideally, a business will show two trends; firstly a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and secondly, an increasing amount of capital employed. Put simply, these types of businesses are compounding machines, meaning they are continually reinvesting their earnings at ever-higher rates of return. So on that note, SAMCO (TSE:6387) looks quite promising in regards to its trends of return on capital.
Return On Capital Employed (ROCE): What Is It?
Just to clarify if you're unsure, ROCE is a metric for evaluating how much pre-tax income (in percentage terms) a company earns on the capital invested in its business. Analysts use this formula to calculate it for SAMCO:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.14 = JP¥1.8b ÷ (JP¥16b - JP¥3.1b) (Based on the trailing twelve months to April 2024).
Therefore, SAMCO has an ROCE of 14%. In absolute terms, that's a pretty normal return, and it's somewhat close to the Semiconductor industry average of 12%.
View our latest analysis for SAMCO
In the above chart we have measured SAMCO's prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you'd like to see what analysts are forecasting going forward, you should check out our free analyst report for SAMCO .
What Can We Tell From SAMCO's ROCE Trend?
SAMCO is displaying some positive trends. Over the last five years, returns on capital employed have risen substantially to 14%. Basically the business is earning more per dollar of capital invested and in addition to that, 39% more capital is being employed now too. So we're very much inspired by what we're seeing at SAMCO thanks to its ability to profitably reinvest capital.
The Bottom Line On SAMCO's ROCE
In summary, it's great to see that SAMCO can compound returns by consistently reinvesting capital at increasing rates of return, because these are some of the key ingredients of those highly sought after multi-baggers. And with the stock having performed exceptionally well over the last five years, these patterns are being accounted for by investors. In light of that, we think it's worth looking further into this stock because if SAMCO can keep these trends up, it could have a bright future ahead.
SAMCO does have some risks though, and we've spotted 1 warning sign for SAMCO that you might be interested in.
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About TSE:6387
Excellent balance sheet with proven track record.
